A study published Thursday in the journal "Scientific Reports" suggests dogs experience an important manifestation of self-representation: body awareness.

One way to improve body awareness is to make your established routines more varied. Skip the weight machine and use free weights, which force you to coordinate your right and left sides.

Also, excessive focus on body symptoms can make the symptoms more intense just from the focus on it. Thus, this extreme awareness keeps people trapped in the grips of anxiety.

"For a dog, being aware of how big is the body, or how the body can be an obstacle, it's reasonable to expect. This is an animal with a complex nervous system, it's an intelligent animal, it's a ...

Dogs seem to show body awareness when completing a fetch task Dogs seem to be conscious of their bodies and understand that their own actions have consequences. Research has previously shown that ...